We have 2 big dogs. Neither one often even finishes what I put out for them. Both are lean and in good shape.
In other words, I see your generalization and raise you an anecdote!
Nonsense! If you had to pay for the energy of duplication then the first things you'd duplicate are solar panels, set them up, then have all the free power you'd ever need to duplicate more stuff (even if only during the day). For any scarcity, you use the duplicator to eliminate it. That's what it's FOR!
This is taking into account NO knowledge of how orbital mechanics work. While you are busily unrolling your little cable in both directions (never mind how you get it going in those directions, or keep it straightening out after it's been in a roll), just where are you?.
Just HOW are you going to hover - not orbit, but HOVER - in order to stay in the exact same spot over the Earth's surface, 1/2 way to synchronous? That's what I'd like to know.
I think you're back to magic again.
Bullshit. Retired Police and especially fire fighters should be taken care of well. We don't pay them, especially fire fighters, very well while they are working, and their chosen career chews them up.
Consider fire fighters. Smoke inhalation, heavy exertion, burns, broken bones, frostbite - you name it. My father in law is a retired fire fighter and he has gnarled fingers, circulatory problems, a bad back, some burns, missing teeth, digestive problems, the list goes on.
Doing that for 30 years, then retiring, I don't EXPECT them to be able to work at something else. Nor need to.
Same with the Police and the military, who lay their health and life on the line. They deserve it - it's the least we owe them.
So bitch about CEOs and Union workers if you want, but don't bitch about those that protect you - in spite of your attitude.
The victims are not your friends, your family, and hopefully, not you.
Um.., this is typical of a lot of sentiment. Our system of justice is based on being presumed innocent until proven guilty, and our country on the basis of individual freedoms.
Therefor, our society is based on freedom - and that includes the freedom to commit crimes. We are not, and never should be, in the business of preventing crimes. You and I are free to commit whatever crimes we want to, whenever we want to. THAT is freedom.
That being said, we will all individually PAY for our crimes - there are consequences. But we are free to chose to commit the crimes. I think that is something we lose sight of all to often. Especially in the heat of "think of the victims - this could have been prevented if only...".
- not even be able to *use* the average operating system, save a BSD licensed one? I'm sorry--The GPL contains terms of the art that require a subtle and nuanced understanding to even start to comprehend. Don't get me started on windows licensing agreements...
You don't have to agree to the GPL just to use the software, only if you want to distribute it.
And if you want to give a friend a copy, and just hand yours to him and say "here you go" - you're fine too. I've read the GPL and (latest versions possibly exempted) there isn't a drop of legalese in it.
There are companies that create custom collections of content for classes - chapters from multiple books, articles, case studies, the professors own material, etc. They call them CoursePacks. Of course, they are publishers so they market to professors that want to use them.
I worked at one point creating a workflow software solution for a company that did that - very interesting project.
I for one am glad we grow a whole lot more food than we can possibly eat. One word- insurance. I like the idea that a drought, a disease, natural disaster, you name it, could come along and wipe out half our crops - and we'd be OK (mostly - we wouldn't starve).
30 or 40 years ago, if people far enough off the beaten path were told to cough up $50K for a power line to their property, I'd have gone solar too, regardless of the inefficiencies.
Sound like a problem that will solve itself. The bats that are attracted to windmills get killed, the rest of the bats live to breed - works itself out in a couple of generations.
No problem.
Would someone care to explain this Meatloaf/Linux Kernel slashmeme for the benefit of an old codger who is entirely missing the cultural reference? Oh, and yes, I did google it before posting this.
Meatloaf has contributed some driver code, I think it was the winmodems, under at least two different pseudonyms. Of course, "Meatloaf" is itself a pseudonym!
Care to elaborate with more details? It's very cool if true (not that I'm all that doubting. Stranger things have been true. Actress and pinup LeMar worked on developing acoustically guided torpedoes in WWII).
Well, if whenever you had more than $100 in your drawer you had to do a safe drop at that point, you don't even have enough money in the drawer to give someone change for a $100. Hence the sign
No, Hollywood proves that a million rehashes of the same PUBLIC DOMAIN story can coexist.
How many millions of versions of Star Wars are there? Or Gone With the Wind?
(E.g., "knight" used to be read exactly like it's written, with a hard K, an I like in "dim", and the G and H actually pronounced. Look at the mangled way you're reading it nowadays. Tut tut.)
So, what you are saying is that the French soldiers in Monty Python's The Holy Grail were..... pronouncing it correctly? That's not funny at all anymore! Thanks for ruining my enjoyment of a timeless classic for all time. I hope you're happy!
Nonsense. "all these vessels were named Enterprise". That works. That there was ANOTHER ship named Enterprise that wasn't in the display - well, that works too. Never said these were the only ships named Enterprise...
Am I the only one that read the summary??? When we lose all our satellites, it says that A DAY LATER it may cause huge simultaneous blackouts by overloading the grid. Well, guess what, when we lose the satellites we just - wait for it - are you ready? - shut down the grid.
Leave it off for a day, 2 days, however long it takes for the flare to subside. Give people a little warning, everyone is ready for it, and we have minimal disruption.
What's the problem People?
You may hate them because they make money, but they got killed on Katrina, almost all lost significantly more than anticipated.
Well, it was a catastrophic event, by definition. So, if the insurance companies got soaked, but not bankrupted, then I'd say it all worked as it should. If the insurance companies run into something cataclysmic and then don't even bat an eye, then I'd say we were all paying them WAY too much. I certainly won't lose a lot of sleep over them having 1 or 2 years with negative balance sheets. To be a little callus, that's the business they went into - deal with it.
There is a corollary to this that I have come up with - you can only image being twice as old as you are now. Think about it a while - seems to explain a great number of effects. Like thinking someone 30 is ancient when you are a teenager. Or being able to relate to a 8 year old when you are 5, but not really with a teen. Or having your first thoughts of mortality at 40-50 (the mid-life crisis). That's the real 'relativity' of time, IMHO.
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We have 2 big dogs. Neither one often even finishes what I put out for them. Both are lean and in good shape. In other words, I see your generalization and raise you an anecdote!
Nonsense! If you had to pay for the energy of duplication then the first things you'd duplicate are solar panels, set them up, then have all the free power you'd ever need to duplicate more stuff (even if only during the day). For any scarcity, you use the duplicator to eliminate it. That's what it's FOR!
Just HOW are you going to hover - not orbit, but HOVER - in order to stay in the exact same spot over the Earth's surface, 1/2 way to synchronous? That's what I'd like to know. I think you're back to magic again.
Consider fire fighters. Smoke inhalation, heavy exertion, burns, broken bones, frostbite - you name it. My father in law is a retired fire fighter and he has gnarled fingers, circulatory problems, a bad back, some burns, missing teeth, digestive problems, the list goes on.
Doing that for 30 years, then retiring, I don't EXPECT them to be able to work at something else. Nor need to.
Same with the Police and the military, who lay their health and life on the line. They deserve it - it's the least we owe them.
So bitch about CEOs and Union workers if you want, but don't bitch about those that protect you - in spite of your attitude.
The victims are not your friends, your family, and hopefully, not you.
Um.., this is typical of a lot of sentiment. Our system of justice is based on being presumed innocent until proven guilty, and our country on the basis of individual freedoms.
Therefor, our society is based on freedom - and that includes the freedom to commit crimes. We are not, and never should be, in the business of preventing crimes. You and I are free to commit whatever crimes we want to, whenever we want to. THAT is freedom.
That being said, we will all individually PAY for our crimes - there are consequences. But we are free to chose to commit the crimes. I think that is something we lose sight of all to often. Especially in the heat of "think of the victims - this could have been prevented if only...".
An thus shall we name the Bosons: Larry Moe Curly Shemp Joe
Now get off my bootblock!
- not even be able to *use* the average operating system, save a BSD licensed one? I'm sorry--The GPL contains terms of the art that require a subtle and nuanced understanding to even start to comprehend. Don't get me started on windows licensing agreements...
You don't have to agree to the GPL just to use the software, only if you want to distribute it.
And if you want to give a friend a copy, and just hand yours to him and say "here you go" - you're fine too. I've read the GPL and (latest versions possibly exempted) there isn't a drop of legalese in it.
There are companies that create custom collections of content for classes - chapters from multiple books, articles, case studies, the professors own material, etc. They call them CoursePacks. Of course, they are publishers so they market to professors that want to use them. I worked at one point creating a workflow software solution for a company that did that - very interesting project.
I for one am glad we grow a whole lot more food than we can possibly eat. One word- insurance. I like the idea that a drought, a disease, natural disaster, you name it, could come along and wipe out half our crops - and we'd be OK (mostly - we wouldn't starve).
30 or 40 years ago, if people far enough off the beaten path were told to cough up $50K for a power line to their property, I'd have gone solar too, regardless of the inefficiencies.
Sound like a problem that will solve itself. The bats that are attracted to windmills get killed, the rest of the bats live to breed - works itself out in a couple of generations. No problem.
Would someone care to explain this Meatloaf/Linux Kernel slashmeme for the benefit of an old codger who is entirely missing the cultural reference? Oh, and yes, I did google it before posting this.
Meatloaf has contributed some driver code, I think it was the winmodems, under at least two different pseudonyms. Of course, "Meatloaf" is itself a pseudonym!
Care to elaborate with more details? It's very cool if true (not that I'm all that doubting. Stranger things have been true. Actress and pinup LeMar worked on developing acoustically guided torpedoes in WWII).
Well, if whenever you had more than $100 in your drawer you had to do a safe drop at that point, you don't even have enough money in the drawer to give someone change for a $100. Hence the sign
No, Hollywood proves that a million rehashes of the same PUBLIC DOMAIN story can coexist. How many millions of versions of Star Wars are there? Or Gone With the Wind?
(E.g., "knight" used to be read exactly like it's written, with a hard K, an I like in "dim", and the G and H actually pronounced. Look at the mangled way you're reading it nowadays. Tut tut.)
So, what you are saying is that the French soldiers in Monty Python's The Holy Grail were ..... pronouncing it correctly? That's not funny at all anymore! Thanks for ruining my enjoyment of a timeless classic for all time. I hope you're happy!
No, they just noticed the empty box. Of a different brand.
Nonsense. "all these vessels were named Enterprise". That works. That there was ANOTHER ship named Enterprise that wasn't in the display - well, that works too. Never said these were the only ships named Enterprise...
Assuming you are not trolling... Read The (Fine) Manual
With really REALLY small paintbrushes
Splitters!
Am I the only one that read the summary??? When we lose all our satellites, it says that A DAY LATER it may cause huge simultaneous blackouts by overloading the grid. Well, guess what, when we lose the satellites we just - wait for it - are you ready? - shut down the grid. Leave it off for a day, 2 days, however long it takes for the flare to subside. Give people a little warning, everyone is ready for it, and we have minimal disruption. What's the problem People?
You may hate them because they make money, but they got killed on Katrina, almost all lost significantly more than anticipated.
Well, it was a catastrophic event, by definition. So, if the insurance companies got soaked, but not bankrupted, then I'd say it all worked as it should. If the insurance companies run into something cataclysmic and then don't even bat an eye, then I'd say we were all paying them WAY too much. I certainly won't lose a lot of sleep over them having 1 or 2 years with negative balance sheets. To be a little callus, that's the business they went into - deal with it.
Best. Response. Ever. I salute you sir!
There is a corollary to this that I have come up with - you can only image being twice as old as you are now. Think about it a while - seems to explain a great number of effects. Like thinking someone 30 is ancient when you are a teenager. Or being able to relate to a 8 year old when you are 5, but not really with a teen. Or having your first thoughts of mortality at 40-50 (the mid-life crisis). That's the real 'relativity' of time, IMHO.